Rotterdam-based Minimal Synth/Darkwave project Humanmachine, comprising guitarist Joris Telgen (ex-SONNDR) and DJ, producer, and film composer Diether Eichler (Eichler Brothers, The Eerier Child), provides a musical response to the concrete blocks of brutalism and the extra-human proportions of an industrial port city.
Inspired by the ’80s cold and minimal wave/industrial sound of bands such as Suicide, Section 25, DAF, Cabaret Voltaire, John Foxx and Chrome, Humanmachine explores the turbulent twists and turns of the human psyche, oppressed by the urban and social wastelands of an overstrained, ‘infocalyptic’ civilization, through a cinematic, austere, atmospheric electronic sound, cloaked in dark, bare, and raw aesthetics.
After last February’s first EP “Mechanism”, the Dutch duo returns with the new single, “Control”, the title track of the upcoming debut album.
A track seemingly about the negative consequences, that take hold when you shift your aim to try to take control of a situation.
Dry hoarse, tight vocals, repeating “Control”, revolve around a robotic, chilling and jittery pool of minimal taut, sharp ticking drum programming, buzzing bass lines, and distorted, obsessive stabbing shards, encircled by an abrasive and compulsive synth rambling of alarming, dramatic smoothly screechy spirals, shadow-lurking droning swells and paranoid edgy swirls, to shift aim and cause a blackout.
